THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED. Screening and Discussion of Gods and Monsters with William Fried, PhD
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THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED. Brill Library Film Series
Screening and Discussion of Gods and Monsters with William Fried, PhD

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JOIN US for a Screening & Discussion of Gods and Monsters

Wednesday, February 28, 2018, 7:00 – 10:00 pm, The Marianne and Nicholas Young Auditorium, 247 East 82nd Street, NYC

The Friends of the Brill Library present a screening and post-film discussion of Gods and Monsters with Dr. William Fried.

One of the most critically acclaimed films of 1998 and winner of several awards including the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay, Gods and Monsters is a compassionate speculation about the final days of James Whale (1889-1957), the director of Frankenstein and 20 other films of the 1930s and ’40s, who was openly gay at a time when homosexuality in Hollywood was discreetly concealed. Adapted and Continue reading THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED. Screening and Discussion of Gods and Monsters with William Fried, PhD

Movies Monday: Ida
By Categories: Film

Click Here to Read: ‘It You Could Lick My Heart it Would Poison You’ Is Pawel Pawlikowski’s new film ‘Ida’ the Polish answer to ‘Aftermath,’ or a story of Jewish suffering and sacrifice? By J. Hoberman on the Tablet website on April 30, 2014.

Click Here to Read: Culture Desk: “Ida”: A Film Masterpiece By David Denby on the New Yorker on May 27, 2014.

Click Here to Read:  Ida Reviewed by Godfrey Cheshire on the Roger Ebert Website on May 2, 2014.

Click Here to Read:  An Innocent Awakened: ‘Ida,’ About an Excavation of Truth in Postwar Poland By A. O. Scott in The New York Times on May 1, 2014. Continue reading Movies Monday: Ida

She Can’t Say “No” Open House and Clinical Presentation at MITPP
By Categories: EVENTS, Psychoanalysis

THE METROPOLITAN INSTITUTE FOR TRAINING IN PSYCHOANALYTIC PSYCHOTHERAPY
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OPEN HOUSE LUNCHEON & CLINICAL PRESENTATION FOR THOSE CONSIDERING POSTGRADUATE TRAINING
Wednesday, March 14, 2018 1:00 PM –2:30 PM
SHE CAN’T SAY “NO”

The powerful challenges of treating a middle-aged, self-effacing, masochistic woman who tended to be a doormat in relationships will be described with a focus on the many trials such a treatment presented. The therapy lasted for two and a half years with a disappointing outcome and illustrates the dyad’s enactments and some of the difficulties of working with a highly defended, “neurotic” patient. Continue reading She Can’t Say “No” Open House and Clinical Presentation at MITPP

Special! Hide and Seek/Hidden and Found: In Search of a Balanced Life: Memoirs, Stories, and Essays by Howard L. Schwartz
By Categories: Literature

Purchase Hide and Seek for $24.50, 30% off the regular price of $35.00, now on IPBooks.net

Click Here to Purchase:  Hide and Seek/Hidden and Found: In Search of a Balanced Life: Memoirs, Stories,and Essays by Howard L. Schwartz on IPBooks.net

Excerpt from Book Review:

Hide and Seek/Hidden and Found is above all an exercise in self-analysis. Schwartz favors honesty over accuracy, feelings over facts in the way he tells his stories. His memoirs are therefore based on “screen memories,” a term from psychoanalysis that speaks to memories that may or may not be based on actual events but on images of the past, remembered or perhaps formed in the present from past feelings, in which old desires and conflicts may be better understood and perhaps resolved. Continue reading Special! Hide and Seek/Hidden and Found: In Search of a Balanced Life: Memoirs, Stories, and Essays by Howard L. Schwartz

Psychoanalytic Reflections: Searching for a Passionate Neutrality with Sandra Buechler at AIP
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AMERICAN INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOANALYSIS Continuing Education Program: 2 CONTACT HOURS for licensed social workers
329 East 62nd Street — New York, NY 10065 — (212) 838-8044 — aipnyc.org — info@aipnyc.org
Psychoanalytic Reflections: Searching for a Passionate Neutrality Sandra Buechler, PhD
Date: Thursday, March 22, 2018 Time: 8:00 pm – 10:00 pm

General Admission: $15 NO Charge for AIP Members, Candidates and Students & NO Charge KHC Staff & Students Contact Hours: 2

Overview:
Everything I have written can be understood as an effort to find a sufficiently passionate form of treatment. In one of the papers in my collection, Psychoanalytic Reflections: Training and Practice (2017, IP Books) I explore how profound feelings about life and health can be integrated into an analytic approach that also honors the concept of neutrality. In this talk I consider how the clinician can inspire active hope, engage in treatment emotionally, facilitate fighting depression, and other challenges.

Learning Objectives:
Participants will be able to describe ways the clinician can integrate neutrality with a sufficiently emotionally engaged treatment approach. Continue reading Psychoanalytic Reflections: Searching for a Passionate Neutrality with Sandra Buechler at AIP

Letter to the New York Times by Henry J. Friedman
By Categories: Psychoanalysis

To the Editor:

Re “I Can’t Stop Mass Shooters,” by Amy Barnhorst (Op-Ed, Feb. 21):

As a psychiatrist practicing for many decades, I have long understood the problems that stop mental health professionals from effectively preventing angry, hating young men from using automatic weapons to murder large numbers of young people whom they both envy and hate.

Dr. Barnhorst has described her experience as an emergency psychiatrist so clearly that anyone who reads her article should be able to comprehend why reliance upon psychiatrists and other mental health workers to prevent future occurrence of mass murders is unrealistic.

As she demonstrates, it may be easy as a psychiatrist to hospitalize and treat a delusional patient experiencing command hallucinations, but this isn’t the case with the kind of raging young man intent on revenge against those he blames for his outsider misery.

Dr. Barnhorst’s article is an example of a psychiatrist successfully educating the public and her colleagues in psychiatry about the limitations of concentrating on mental illness as the cause of mass murders.

HENRY J. FRIEDMAN
CAMBRIDGE, MASS.

The writer is an associate professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School.